nest vs stop

nest

noun
  • A fortified position for a weapon. 

  • An aggregated mass of any ore or mineral, in an isolated state, within a rock. 

  • A home that a child or young adult shares with a parent or guardian. 

  • A structure built by a bird as a place to incubate eggs and rear young. 

  • A collection of boxes, cases, or the like, of graduated size, each put within the one next larger. 

  • A compact group of pulleys, gears, springs, etc., working together or collectively. 

  • The pubic hair near a vulva or a vulva itself. 

  • A circular bed of pasta, rice, etc. to be topped or filled with other foods. 

  • A snug, comfortable, or cosy residence or job situation. 

  • A structure consisting of nested structures, such as nested loops or nested subroutine calls. 

  • A retreat, or place of habitual resort. 

  • A hideout for bad people to frequent or haunt; a den. 

  • A place used by another mammal, fish, amphibian or insect, for depositing eggs and hatching young. 

  • A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand. 

verb
  • To successively neatly fit inside another. 

  • To place one thing neatly inside another, and both inside yet another (and so on). 

  • To build or settle into a nest. 

  • To hunt for birds' nests or their contents (usually "go nesting"). 

  • To settle into a home. 

  • To place in, or as if in, a nest. 

stop

noun
  • A coup d'arret, or stop thrust. 

  • An f-stop. 

  • A knob or pin used to regulate the flow of air in an organ. 

  • A part of a photographic system that reduces the amount of light. 

  • A very short shot which touches the ground close behind the net and is intended to bounce as little as possible. 

  • A (usually marked) place where buses, trams or trains halt to let passengers get on and off, usually smaller than a station. 

  • One of the vent-holes in a wind instrument, or the place on the wire of a stringed instrument, by the stopping or pressing of which certain notes are produced. 

  • An action of stopping; interruption of travel. 

  • A member, plain or moulded, formed of a separate piece and fixed to a jamb, against which a door or window shuts. 

  • A consonant sound in which the passage of air through the mouth is temporarily blocked by the lips, tongue, or glottis. 

  • A small well-bucket; a milk-pail. 

  • A save; preventing the opposition from scoring a goal 

  • That which stops, impedes, or obstructs; an obstacle; an impediment. 

  • The squark that is the superpartner of a top quark. 

  • The diaphragm used in optical instruments to cut off the marginal portions of a beam of light passing through lenses. 

  • A device intended to block the path of a moving object 

  • The depression in a dog’s face between the skull and the nasal bones. 

  • A unit of exposure corresponding to a doubling of the brightness of an image. 

  • A device, or piece, as a pin, block, pawl, etc., for arresting or limiting motion, or for determining the position to which another part shall be brought. 

  • A symbol used for purposes of punctuation and representing a pause or separating clauses, particularly a full stop, comma, colon or semicolon. 

verb
  • To cause (something) to come to an end. 

  • To pronounce (a phoneme) as a stop. 

  • To cease; to no longer continue (doing something). 

  • To cease moving. 

  • To end someone else's activity. 

  • To stay; to spend a short time; to reside or tarry temporarily. 

  • To regulate the sounds of (musical strings, etc.) by pressing them against the fingerboard with the finger, or otherwise shortening the vibrating part. 

  • To make fast; to stopper. 

  • To cause (something) to cease moving or progressing. 

  • To delay the purchase or sale of (a stock) while agreeing the price for later. 

  • To adjust the aperture of a camera lens. 

  • To close or block an opening. 

  • Not to continue. 

punct
  • Used to indicate the end of a sentence in a telegram. 

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